Improvement in tile-machines



UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFICE.

MILES MOORE, OF LIBER, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TILE-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202,454, dated April 16, 1878 application filed December 29, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILES MOORE, of Liber, county of Jay and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Tile-Machine, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to machines for making tiles from clay; and the nature of my invention consists in combining with a mixingmill an eccentric-plunger, arranged in a chamber which has two discharge spouts or trunks, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a section taken horizontally through the machine in the plane indicated by dotted line 4 y, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a section taken vertically through the machine in the plane indicated by dotted line 00 m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates a cylindrical curb, inside, of which turns a mixer composed of curved blades B, secured to a vertical shaft, O, which is stepped upon a floor, a, and guided near its upper end by a bridge, I). The bottom 0 of the mixing-mill has openings through it for the passage of the prepared clayfrom the mill-drum into a circular chamber, E, from which extend in opposite directions two trunks, F F, which are of rectangular form in crosssection, and in practice they will be provided ton in forcing the clay that is received from' the mixing-cylinder through the trunks F. Two slides, J, which move in guiding-slots in the trunks F are applied to the periphery of the plunger G. These slides are connected together by a rod outside of the chamber E. The slides form vertical partitions in the chamber E, and they are moved endwise by said eccentric-plunger during the operation of forcing the clay out through the trunks.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The chamber E, having trunks F, the eccentric-plunger G, and the connected slides J, in combination, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In combination with a mixing-mill and the eccentric rotating plunger Gr, arranged inside of the chamber E, from which extend trunks F F, the slides J J, arranged substantially as and for the purpose described.

MILES MOORE.

Witnesses:

MARION G. WRIGHT, Tnos. S. JoHNsoN. 

